Dow Jones (DJIA) Today: Boeing (BA) Higher

The Dow component leading the way higher looks to be Boeing (NYSE:BA), which is sporting a 76-cent gain (+0.5%) bringing the stock to $141.80.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI) is trading up 67 points (+0.4%) at 17,908 as of Thursday, May 7, 2015, 11:36 a.m. ET. During this time, 112.5 million shares of the 30 Dow components have changed hands vs. an average daily trading volume of 370.2 million. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,651 issues advancing vs. 1,312 declining with 157 unchanged.

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The Dow component leading the way higher looks to be Boeing (NYSE: BA), which is sporting a 76-cent gain (+0.5%) bringing the stock to $141.80. This single gain is lifting the Dow Jones Industrial Average by 5.75 points or roughly accounting for 8.6% of the Dow's overall gain. Volume for Boeing currently sits at two million shares traded vs. an average daily trading volume of 4.1 million shares.

Boeing has a market cap of $98.82 billion and is part of the industrial goods sector and aerospace/defense industry. Shares are up 9.9% year-to-date as of Wednesday's close. The stock's dividend yield sits at 2.5%.